Why Rote Learning Is A Dinosaur

PFSK links to a video interview with Henry Jenkins by the Guardian at SXSW 09 discussing what we can learn from gaming. The interview is viewable below, but the few sentences that stand out for me are:

Most education is about the person who can learn by themselves and know everything. Most forms of collaboration in the classroom are cheating, whereas in the real world we collaborate all the time…And that’s the world we have to prepare students for.


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